The 53-page preliminary report published by Kazakhstan's transport ministry included photographs of the plane.

An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan had suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, according to a report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday.

On February 7, 2025, a memorial service was held in honor of those who tragically lost their lives in the plane crash involving an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft in Aktau on December 25, 2024. The event was organized by the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Azerbaijan and the Mangistau Regional Akimat,

The Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of the Republic of Azerbaijan has published a preliminary report on the investigation of the crash of the Embraer 190 passenger plane belonging to AZAL near Aktau Airport.

Kazakh officials released the report February 4, stating the 53-parge document “does not purport to assign blame or responsibility to anyone” for the incident, in which an Azerbaijani flight bound for Grozny in Chechnya is widely believed to have been hit by anti-aircraft fire before making a crash landing near the Kazakh city of Aktau,

Transport Ministry report contains no final conclusions about causes of Azerbaijan Airlines crash near Aktau Airport in December of last year - Anadolu Ajansı

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin and Azerbaijan's Ambassador to Moscow Rahman Mustafayev discussed the tragic crash of an "Azerbaijan Airlines" plane near Aktau, Kazakhstan, Azernews reports, citing a statement issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Russian civil aviation authorities said Wednesday that they have not been granted access to the “foreign objects” that damaged an Azerbaijani jet before it crashed in Kazakhstan last month. Kazakhstan’s Transportation Ministry on Tuesday published preliminary findings of its investigation into the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243.